Individual Details

Name: Elmer D Short
Birth Year: 1914
Race: White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Missouri
State of Residence: California
County or City: Napa

Enlistment Date: 26 May 1942
Enlistment State: California
Enlistment City: San Francisco
Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Branch Code: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Grade: Private
Grade Code: Private
Term of Enlistment: Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education: Grammar school
Civil Occupation: Farm hands, animal and livestock
Marital Status: Single, without dependents
Height: 69
Weight: 156
Source Information: National Archives and Records Administration. U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.


Elmer David Short's obituary at Find A Grave: Birth: Sep., 1914, Death: Aug. 14, 1953 and wife, Daisy Bea Sallee Short 1920 - 1953, Craig County, Oklahoma.

Vinita Daily Journal, Vinita, Oklahoma, Aug. 20,1953: An autopsy report today revealed that both Elmer David Short, 38, and his wife, Daisy Bea, 33, died of suffocation in a 15-foot water well some time last Friday. Evidence indicated Short probably planned to put an extension on a pipe leading down into the well and that he probably asked his wife to go along to help. The young couple were married in Sept. 1948 in Craig County. Elmer Short is survived by his parents, Mr. & Mrs. Henry H. Short of Vinita; six brothers, Emory and Delbert Short both of Napa, Calif.; William C. Short, Aberdeen, Wash.; Ernest Short, Santa Rosa, Calif.; Wilmer Short, Papauma [Petaluma], Calif.; and Melvin R. Short stationed with the U.S. Navy in San Diego, Calif.; two sisters, Mrs. Anna Asbury, Stockton, Calif.; and Mrs. Imogene Williams, Occidental, Calif..

Birth	24 Sep 1914	Missouri
Marriage	Sep 1948	Craig Co., Oklahoma - Daisy Bea Sallee
Death	14 Aug 1953	Vinita, Craig Co., Oklahoma
Alt name		Elmer D Short
Burial		Fairview Cemetery, Vinita, Craig Co., Oklahoma
Burial		Vinita, Craig Co., Oklahoma

Spouse

Daisy Bea Sallee (1920 - 1953)

Father	John "Henry" Short (1880 - 1972)
Mother	Minnie Ellen Wine (1891 - 1966)
Sibling	Emory Mansell Albert Short (1912 - 2000)
Sibling	William Clarence Short (1918 - 2010)
Sibling	Earnest M Short (1920 - 1969)
Sibling	Anna Irene Short (1923 - 1995)
Sibling	Wilmer Hubert Short (1925 - 2012)
Sibling	Robert O. Short (1927 - )
Sibling	Edith Imogene Short (1929 - )
Sibling	Delbert Franklin Short (1931 - 1988)
Sibling	Melvin Ray Short (1936 - 2014)